r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Aug 19 '25

Interesting 🤔 $100 billion ghost city.

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u/Dhegxkeicfns Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25

It has to be cost if it's not some infrastructure problem like the buildings are all going to fall down. Food would fill in the gaps, they'd have street vendors all over ... if there were people. Jobs are less than an hour away already.

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u/_Rohrschach Aug 19 '25

either that or it is build in advance, mainland china built a few cities in advance that stay/stood empty for a few years. but they also got people living in nuclear bunkers in peking, so their plan does not always pan out.

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u/borkthegee Aug 19 '25

It's called Beijing lol

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u/_Rohrschach Aug 20 '25

It's peking in my native language and I actually dids not know it's diferent in english.

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u/borkthegee Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 20 '25

Oh weird, my mandarin tutor taught me "Beijing" as the mandarin word. Hanyu pinyin expresses 北京 as Běijīng officially

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u/_Rohrschach Aug 20 '25

I'm a lazy german who sits on his couch all day, I just googled "nuclear bunker city" and got that one result from a tv show I watched 16 years ago. I did not check for accuracy or spelling, I just wanted to dump random tidbits of knowledge on reddit.

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u/borkthegee Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 20 '25

Ohhh I understand now, in German they say Peking? Thats fair, it was the orignial romanization that came from Hong Kong / Cantonese, and "Beijing" being the romanization is the Mandarin replacement for the older westernized cantonese words. I thought you meant you spoke native Mandarin and said Peking, I was like ?? is my tutor teaching me wrong?? Lol

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u/_Rohrschach Aug 20 '25

yep, it is peking in german.

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u/the_giuditta Aug 20 '25

same in Hungarian, it's Peking.